Alright! I’m currently sitting in LA, prepared for PDC 2009. I’ll be in the company of folks such as Rafael Rivera (withinwindows.com), Tom Warren (neowin.net), Mary Jo Foley (zdnet.com/microsoft), Paul Thurrott (winsupersite.com), Long Zheng (istartedsomething.com), Ed Bott (zdnet.com/Bott), and many others! Those folks will be live blogging again this year, so be sure to check it out if you’re interested.

As for me, my plan is to keep all of you updated on things I find interesting/relevant via this very post. I’m going to keep it up top, so you can either bookmark this page directly, or you can simply visit my site via the main URL and you’ll see this post right up top throughout the duration of the conference. As I update content, I’ll ping content servers and post to my Twitter, so if you don’t want to keep refreshing this page or whatever, you can simply await the content to fall into your RSS feeder or Twitter page.

I’ll be taking plenty of video and pictures to post here, so you’ll be able to see the hijinks that take place when the lot of us get together. In the past, we (I) have thrown wet toilet paper out of a window 20 stories up at unsuspecting people below and if you’ve never done that before… it’s highly recommended. lol. But that was years ago when I was just a young whipper-snapper.

Well, that’s it for now. I just wanted to kick off my official PDC 2009 post. I encourage you to get involved via the comments section below! Let me know some things you guys and gals would like to see and I’ll try to accommodate however many requests I find feasible. More soon!

-Stephen

Update 01: I’ve been snapping photos like crazy since the flight here. These are pictures that are everything from a sunrise to a cool Predator recreation out of metal at Santa Monica to a bunch of us sitting here in the press room today. I’ll just keep adding pictures to this space as I snap them throughout the length of the conference. Hover your mouse over the images to see a description and click on them for a larger version.

-Stephen

Update 02: Well, today was fairly lengthy and boring, unfortunately. It was not my day for the conference, but I hope tomorrow will be better with mentions of IE9 (hopefully) and *maybe* something beyond Windows 7 (SP1 is all it would be at the most, I’m sure). Regardless, I have pictures to share from the past couple of days. Before I post those, though, here’s a really awesome video of an Alien vs. Predator demo running on an AMD machine with ATI’s latest DX11 GPU. This video doesn’t quite capture just how awesome it looks in person – but, hopefully, you’ll get the idea. Check it all out:

And even though today was extremely uneventful for me and my interests, it was a very fruitful day for my blog where Windows 8 content is concerned. Here’s a recap of the posts I made today:

Short: Windows 8 is Definitely Getting the Hyper-V Treatment
Forrester Research says: 1% of 653 Businesses Surveyed will Wait for Windows 8
Windows 8: More Roadmaps

More soon!

-Stephen

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